Sorry, yeah, I was agreeing with you that it sounds like an expensive promotion. The only loophole I can see in it is that they have to observe you spinning it to claim your prizes from it and that will cut down on some of the freebies...... but that also sounds like it'd just lead to people hanging out for five minutes out of spite, getting their free bagel and never coming back.

I'm assuming it's a temporary deal.

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And as far as I can tell, it (A) neglects moveset, and (B) overvalues the ATK stat by its square.

Now your at-will move is far more important than your special.

If we presume a baseline 10 DPS on a move, we can work out the move's DPS, take its sqrt, then divide by 10 you'll get your "attacker CP multiplier" that is more accurate.

For defenders, assuming a 1.5 second delay between moves, take the damage, divide by 1.5, take the sqrt and divide by 10 for a similar "defender CP multiplier".

The ATK stat over-value can be corrected by dividing by the sqrt of the attack stat (this neglects IV -- we can add 0-15, maybe 10, before doing this to make it easy).

I think the result would be a more accurate "effective CP":"displayed CP" number.

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This will tell you how far off the CP is. But for how awesome a pokemon is absolutely (ignoring the displayed CP), we care about how much "effective CP" it gets *per level* on both attack and defence.

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Am I right in neglecting special moves? From what I can tell, they take so long to charge up and only at best do marginally better damage than the base move...

With STAB and the fact that "barely effective" and "super effective" are only x1.25 multipliers, it rarely is worth a serious consideration to switch up move choice, unless you are going from "barely effective + STAB" attacks to "super effective + STAB" attacks, which is really rare. Especially considering basic attacks make it really easy to dodge their basic attacks.

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SecondTalon wrote:Sorry, yeah, I was agreeing with you that it sounds like an expensive promotion. The only loophole I can see in it is that they have to observe you spinning it to claim your prizes from it and that will cut down on some of the freebies...... but that also sounds like it'd just lead to people hanging out for five minutes out of spite, getting their free bagel and never coming back.

I'm assuming it's a temporary deal.

I think they assumed this game was for children or something. Then it would make sense. Right now I'm driving by every day for an afternoon snack. Even without the lure, it's only 75 cents for lox. So 60 percent off bagel and lox. That's a great deal.

I may buy some extra salmon to make up for it since i don't drink soda. And yes, it's limited to once per day per person.

I'm farming up cheap pidgeys caterpies and weevils to use for my lucky egg. That should power level me to 17.

sardia wrote:I think they assumed this game was for children or something. Then it would make sense. Right now I'm driving by every day for an afternoon snack. Even without the lure, it's only 75 cents for lox. So 60 percent off bagel and lox. That's a great deal.

I may buy some extra salmon to make up for it since i don't drink soda. And yes, it's limited to once per day per person.

You can probably buy in-game coins to get lures and you'll make money off of it. Until they cancel the promotion of course.

In a month I'm going to Colorado, and I'm hoping the change of location will allow me to get a bunch more pokemon. But after that, I think I may stop playing the game - it doesn't feel particularly satisfying to play anymore, with the lack of interesting pokemon, my limited interest in battling gym (practically useless after you get your coins), getting stupid stuff from eggs, and it's too damn hot to go on pokewalks. We'll see, it might change when it's cooler.

Yeah the pokemons around my work and my home are all pretty much the same.

Regarding in-app purchases, if you buy 8 lures at once, that's 680 coins. If you pay $10 at once (not a ridiculous amount when considering food), you'll get 1200 coins. That comes to 71 cents per lure, which is cheaper than the 75 cents lox normally costs. Of course, if you buy more coins at once then the price goes lower - if you buy 14,500 coins with $99.99, then each lure only costs 58.6 cents. That's a lot of lox, though - 170 if you use all those coins for that, and I very much doubt the promotion would last half a year (or that you would want to eat lox every single day).

Update from bagel land, the store has updated it's policy. Only non lox cream cheese is free. So I can get a bagel for a stop or a Free cream cheese bagel for a lure. I think I'll just hit the stop for a free bagel and pay for cream cheese instead of using precious lures in a non prime spot. Yes, I'm really into lox cream cheese bagels.

Works for me. Point is just that your starters, and other "rare" pokemon you've caught that don't often show up in your area can finally actually be *worth* something. Right now you're limited to whatever shows up often enough in your normal catching area for you to have sufficient candies for it.

Buddies are cool. I've been saying since release that they needed some kind of generic candy, and this fits the bill well enough. Seems like a lot of walking though. 600+ km to turn my Dratini into a Dragonite? Geez.

Did everyone stop playing this because they enjoyed having a battery that lasts past elevenses? My phone is up for contractual renewal in one month, and I'm laying its battery woes (drains erratically, cuts out unexpectedly between 8-18%) on the very door of Gokemon, as the meeting of the twain coincided a little too much for my liking. Also, I know phone batteries decline over time, but this was very sudden, especially after spending 18 months taking such good care of it (and reaping the rewards: my battery until recently lasted a good 36 hours with medium to heavy usage).

No, I definitely still play. My battery woes were helped by the introduction of the PoGo Plus; when I'm out walking or at my desk, I just have that synced up and I can catch pokemon and hit up pokestops without much trouble at all, and it drains the battery much slower.

Felstaff wrote:Did everyone stop playing this because they enjoyed having a battery that lasts past elevenses? My phone is up for contractual renewal in one month, and I'm laying its battery woes (drains erratically, cuts out unexpectedly between 8-18%) on the very door of Gokemon, as the meeting of the twain coincided a little too much for my liking. Also, I know phone batteries decline over time, but this was very sudden, especially after spending 18 months taking such good care of it (and reaping the rewards: my battery until recently lasted a good 36 hours with medium to heavy usage).

The update that bans all players with rooted or jailbroken devices is part of it, player fatigue/lack of new content is another part.

The car is ugly is to make it safe. People have this expectation that cars should be sexy, and fast, which really just means dangerous. What they're trying to do is to make you as bored as possible in the car.

Felstaff wrote:Did everyone stop playing this because they enjoyed having a battery that lasts past elevenses? My phone is up for contractual renewal in one month, and I'm laying its battery woes (drains erratically, cuts out unexpectedly between 8-18%) on the very door of Gokemon, as the meeting of the twain coincided a little too much for my liking. Also, I know phone batteries decline over time, but this was very sudden, especially after spending 18 months taking such good care of it (and reaping the rewards: my battery until recently lasted a good 36 hours with medium to heavy usage).

I stopped playing because there is no reason to keep playing. The novelty has worn off and revealed just how shallow an experience it is.

I stopped playing because it doesn't work reliably on my phone anymore. it was only ever a thin excuse to get out of my apartment anyway, now that the weather's bearable here I don't really need it. Though that may not last long.

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The last notice I saw said it's available in only a few more areas - all of Australia, a couple of bits of the US, and somewhere else (I'm guessing in Canada). Still, it is so much better to be able to isolate a Pokemon's location properly now, although people in rural areas with few Pokestops are still languishing.

Realistically, they were languishing anyway. There are so many times more Pokémon in cities I question why anyone outside the city would even play. However, there was a big increase in the number of Pokémon that spawn around Pokestops recently, even in those pokestops away from highly populated areas. I'm betting that was in anticipation for this new tracker. Given that change, the tracker will probably still get them there more often than not.

Oh, yeah, so Friends are in the game now. A friend can send you a gift from a local stop to them and some of those gifts have eggs (provided you have an open egg slot). The critters that pop out of those eggs are from ... wherever the gift came from.

So if I send a gift from a stop in Louisville KY over to someone in Turkey, and they send me one from Istanbul and then we both trade the critter that hatches for a local one, that'll roughly be a 9000km difference. And since the gold Distance Trader badge is 1,000,000 cumulative kilometers... getting friends across the globe helps.

Point being, while most forumites are in the UK and North America, there's still some utility in providing friend codes and so on. You'll (probably) never get any benefit from being friends with them other than the long distance eggs, but... that's useful in and of itself.

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